Research Methodology Article Reviews Samples For Students

Memorandum

This memorandum will examine a scholarly article that discusses organizational change and managerial sense-making. The article critique will be presented in this memo by focusing on the thesis, methods, evidence of thesis support, contribution to literature, recommendation and implication.

Thesis

The strategic planners design change management programs, while the middle managers implement these initiatives by managing resistance and emotions of subordinates to ensure organizational transformation. The article, Organizational Change and Managerial Sense-making focuses on the critical aspect that managers must focus on ‘sense-giving’ to reduce skepticism and uncertainty among subordinates regarding the intent and dedication of their bosses about change management ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works.
The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

Critical Review

Thesis
This is a critical review on research paper Case Studies on Successful M&A Practices in Acer & Lenovo: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. The first section of this paper will discuss the purpose, rationale and related literature of this research paper. The second section will discuss the research methodology and design used in this paper. The final section will discuss the main findings and the implication related to this study.

Introduction

Historical information shows that about 70% of the M&A (merger & acquisitions) have led to value destruction and only 30% of the M&A lead to value creation. This case of empirical ...

The Value of Culinary Education: Evaluating Educational Costs, Job Placement Outcomes, and Satisfaction With Value of Associate Degree Culinary and Baking Arts Program Graduates by Jean L. Hertzman and John Maas
This article tries to evaluate the educational costs, job placement outcomes and satisfaction with value of associate degree graduates. It tries to ascertain whether the job in which a person is placed satisfy his or her educational qualification. It also tries to know the cost of an associate degree in culinary or baking and pastry arts which varies significantly on whether the program is housed in public, private, ...

Article Summary: Ergonomics

Article: “The work practices and ergonomic problems experienced by garment workers in Ghana” by Efua Vandyck and Docea A.G. Fianu

Summary of the Article:

The article entitled “The work practices and ergonomic problems experienced by garment workers in Ghana” written by Vandyck & Fianu (2012) presented crucial information pertinent to potentials for developing musculoskeletal diseases of tailors and dressmakers working in various garment manufacturers in Ghana. The aim of the study was to determine the factors and stressors that apparently contribute to work-related injuries or chronic illnesses related to the tasks that were performed. Specifically, the authors focused on evaluating the features and attributes ...

- Introduction
The title of this research paper is “To determine the effects of a prenatal breastfeeding workshop on maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding duration”. The setting of this research is in the city of Ontario in Canada. The intended population in this research is a woman in Canada (Noel-Weiss et al., 2006, p.128). The size of the sample used in this research is a hundred and ten. The characteristics of this representative sample include women who are expecting to deliver a single child. The child has to be healthy and fully developed and cognitive. The purpose of the research is to ...

First of all, the idea of using non-pharmacological approaches to deal with cases of dementia is noble. However, the assertions that are made in this article are based on inadequate research. There is limited literature coverage regarding the topic because minimal research has been done in the area. This means that this article is based on limited data and data analysis. For any research methodology to be credible, researchers have to widely analyze patterns and trends using large amounts of data. The presence of limited literature coverage over the success of reminiscence therapy creates makes the research more vulnerable ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to compare two nursing articles in terms of their research purpose, research methodology, and research designs. The articles which have been chosen for this study are based the topic of Maggot Debridement Therapy.

Following are the articles which have been chosen for this analysis:

- Larval therapy for leg ulcers (VenUS II): randomized controlled trial – Quantitative Study
- Patients’ perceptions and experiences of larval therapy - Qualitative Case Study
The first article has been written by Dumville. The article was published in the year 2009 in the BMJ journal. The second article Kitching. The article was published in the year 2004 ...

Article Review

The meta-argument in this article is that there has been an increasing embracement of social networks by different marketing personnel who include both market practitioners and the academia. The authors of this article claim that research has become a fundamental entity in the field of marketing, citing the Marketing Science Institute as being among the top areas of study in the recent decade. Considering that the Market is diverse and heterogeneous marketers have to understand the system so as to be able to enhance the acceptability of goods and services across cultural frameworks. However, understanding the social system cannot be ...

Article Review

The article has been written about managing risk with reference to the gold mining industry in the United States of America and Canada. Over here, the writer first mentions that while most firms do not like to divulge their risk management processes, the firms which are dealing in the gold mining sector would rather disclose their risk management process. He further justifies this to be one of the key reasons for this research as he would get access to recent and accurate data and thereby would be able to conduct an empirical analysis. Also the author gets an opportunity ...